Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid

This book is the first critical primer about Canada’s ties to Israel. It is a devastating account of Canadian complicity in 20th and 21st century colonialism, dispossession and war crimes. The book documents the history of Canadian Christian Zionism, Lester Pearson’s important role in the United Nations negotiations to create a Jewish state on Palestinian land, the millions of dollars in tax-deductable donations used to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ties to Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad).

Praise

”Yves Engler’s meticulously researched volume refutes, for anyone who still believes it, the myth that Canada is or ever has been an honest broker in the Middle East. Reading Engler’s work leaves one with the inescapable and sad conclusion that the essence of Canadian policy has always been support for the establishment and continued dominance of an expansionist Zionist state in the territories that now comprise Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. As a former Zionist youth leader, I thank Engler for setting the record straight and can only lament our country’s historical and ongoing contribution to the tragedy enveloping the long-suffering peoples of the Promised Land, Arab and Jewish.”
– Gabor Maté, Physician and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.

”Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night doorman in Montreal… He’s in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time with politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to the public record.”
– Rick Salutin, Globe and MailContents

Introduction: The Only Democracy in Middle East or Apartheid State? • History of Christian and Jewish Zionism • Lester Pearson and Partition • The Maple Leaf and Ethnic Cleansing • Canadian Names on Stolen Land • Peacekeeping and the 1967 War • Ottawa Supports Israel’s Regional Supremacy • Canadian Ties to the Occupation • Today’s Christian Zionists • Stephen Harper’s Love for Israel • Anti-Semitism as Ideological Cover • Left Zionism • The Israel Lobby • The Reasons for Canadian Support • Organizing for a Democratic Foreign Policy • Index